Card game



Dec) 7 1926.

VH. C. BACKEMEYER CARD GAME Filed July 29, 1926 COVERED WAGON T R E S E D MOUNTAIN Fig. 6.

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iiNrren STATES ParruNTl OFFICE.

HENRY C. BACKEMEYER, F GREENWOOD, NEBRASKA.

CARD

Application filed July 29,

My invention relates to card games and more specifically to a card game representing trips in which a conveyance such as a covered wagon is used, the trip being made through any one of four classes of topographical features and requiring certain accessories or, combinations of these accessories for each particular trip. The object of the game is, of course, to provide amusementand entertainmentfor the players.

The deck contains forty cards asfollows and as shown on the accompanying drawings:

Figure l illustrates the covered wagon cards of which there are eight in the deck.

Figure 2 illustrates the mountain cards.

Figure 3 is an illustration oi the desert cards.

Figure 4 is an illustration of the canyon cards.

Figure 5 is an illustration of the guide cards.

Figure 6 is an illustration of the stream cards.

Figures 7, 8 and 9 illustrate the bridge, brake and water cards respectively.

The deck contains four cards of each kind with the exception of the covered wagon cards of which there are eight.

The game may be played by two, four or six players but is most satisfactorily played by either two or four players.

The first deal is determined by having the players in succession draw a card from the deck, the first one drawing a covered wagon card being the dealer. The dealer then deals six cards to each player if there are four players or nine cards to each player if there are two players.

Jliter the deal each player bids for the iirst play, the one bidding highest being the first player'. rThe game is played for points and ii the player does not make the points that he bids, he is set back accordingly. The play continues until one of the players completes a trip which counts one point.

.if the irst player plays a covered wagon card the next player must play a scene card in order to start the trip. This scene card may be a mountain, canyon, stream or desert GAME.

1926. Serial No. 125,769.

card and it determines the equipment or accessories required 'for the completion of the trip. If a mountain card is played on a covered wagon card, a brake card or a guide card is required to complete the trip. It a stream card is played on a covered wagon card, the trip can be completed with either a bridge card or a guide card. If, however., a stream card is played on a mountain card, the trip will require both a brake and a bridge or a guide alone. The desert card requires a water card and the canyon card requires a brake card. It a stream card is played on a canyon card, both a bridge card Aand a brake card are required for the completion oi' the trip. The guide card may, however, take the place of the bridge, brake or water cards or of any combination of these cards.

The first player may lead with a scene card instead of a covered wagon card and thus determine the character of the trip. The trip, however, requires a covered wagon card along with the cards representing the needed accessories or equipment. The covered wagon card is required for every trip and is called the trip card. The irst play should preferably be a covered wagon card but anyone of the Jfour scene cards may be played instead. Each trip, therefore, includes a covered wagon card, a scene card and cards representing the needed accessories or equipment. Thirteen points or trips complete the game.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

l. A card game comprising a pack of cards and in which the points are determined by trips, each trip including a conveyance card, a scene card for determining the character of the trip, and cards representing the equipment required for a trip of the character determined by the scene card, or a card representing a guide in lieu of said cards representing equipment.

Q. A card game comprising a pack of cards including a plurality of cards representing a conveyance, a plurality of cards representing various types of topographical features,

a plurality of cards representing equipment required on a trip, and a plurality of cards representing a guide, the points of the game being determined by trips each of Which must include a card representing a conveyance, atleast one card representing topographical features and determining the charaoter of the trip, and either a guide card or the cards 'representing the necessary equipment required for a trip of the @han acter determined by the card represent'npr topographical features.

ln testimony whereof I aiiix my signatm'e HENRY C. BACKEMEYER 

